Personal photos from historic festivals

I always feel a little reluctant to post pictures from modern 'historic' meetings on the track and paddock threads, as they really constitute a category in themselves, so I thought that a new thread might be an excuse to post a few more from the archive, as there is plenty of interesting subject matter from events such as the old Christie's/Coys festivals, the Gooodwood FoS and Revival, the Old Timer GP, L'Age d'Or, Laguna Seca, Le Mans Classic etc...Hope you don't think it too indulgent, and hope that you can come up with more.

From the first Christie's Historic Festival at Silverstone, 1990Highlight of that first festival was the appearance of Neil Corner's Mercedes W154, and Auto Union driven by John Surtees. At the last minute, Corner decided to enter the Mulberry 100-mile GP cars race, but was put off course by an errant Riley on the first lap. The driver's group features Willie Green, Rupert Keegan, Barrie Williams and Neil Corner (in car)

Willie Green in the 1957 German GP-winning 250F, and Alain de Cadenet with Vanwall VW10, then owned by the Swedish consortioum, AB Consolidator.

The McLaren M8Fs of Charlie Agg and Sir John Whitmore. Sir John showed that he was still a contender taking one win in the two-part International Supersports Cup.

From the first Goodwood Festival of Speed 1993. It was all very low-key, in contrast to subsequent years, with a very relaxed, garden party atmosphere. Note "the right crowd and no crowding" and lack of sponsors' marquees.Willie Green with Carol Spagg's Alfa 158/159 and Dan Margulies' Maserati 4CLT

Originally posted by Alan Cox From the first Goodwood Festival of Speed 1993. It was all very low-key, in contrast to subsequent years, with a very relaxed, garden party atmosphere. Willie Green with Carol Spagg's Alfa 158/159 and Dan Margulies' Maserati 4CLT

Unfortunately most of what crowd was there for the start of Friday practice were standing there, with just a chestnut paling for protection the first day. I was already preparing to say something about the obvious danger when the first spots of rain fell, the next car got into a tank slapper and the area was immediately cordoned off...The paddock was a far safer place:

Well, now you've gone and done it! I went to Monterey every year save one between from 1977 to 2001. Some years I shot as many as 20 to 25 rolls of 36 exp. Here are a few I happen to have already scanned.

i tell you what michael....those memories of early race meetings like the oldtimer gp and the meetings at flugplatz mainz finthen are still so powerfull...i look at the pictures and straight away i get the smell of racingoil petrol and rubber in my nose (and the taste of the worlds best burgers and 3 coloured icecream supplied by the us army)i'll never forget that....my dad sent me on a journey and 37 years later i'm still travelling the first few meetings i went to were all historic events....the real racecars for me were always the oldtimers,i got into contemporary racing alot later.weeeeeelll.......you would have aimed at a plastic citroen in my case..... cheers marty

Yes, that was virtually a one-off. In his book 'I Me Mine', he tells a story of being at Brands Hatch in the early 70's when Team Surtees were testing and he got to have a go in their latest F1 car (don't know which one), halfway round the lap he thought it was a bit drafty in the cockpit, only to realise that he'd forgotten to put on a crash helmet!! BTW, that Lotus in the Donington pic is the ex-Moss Monaco 61 car.

I notice this page is taking an exceptional amount of time to open, even with broadband. Although we are now at last in the 21st century where I live, some are not and will not be able to open the page. Is it the size of some photos? Is there a size limit here like most forums?

I agree with RS 2000 - even with a brand new computer on broadband I find threads with lots of pictures do take ages to open - including a few red x's. It would be a great help if everyone used the 'thumbnails' option. It takes far less time to open and you can always open up the pictures you want to look at.

I'm tending towards the D-type end of the scale - admittedly nowhere near pre-broadband days, but a page often takes several seconds to load. Multiply that by perhaps seven image-heavy threads times three or four times a day and it can be a drag.
I'm personally happy with thumbnails, or reasonably-sized full images it you must. But 20 or 30 large pictures per page can be a pain.
Without wishing a 'sad day' on option1, I would support a move towards some sort of restriction

Originally posted by Andrew Kitson A max of 600 pixels wide at 300dpi (ideally 72dpi) is never usually a problem.It is the high dpi and large images that cause the slow down.

Andrew just because they blindly do it on a forum you moderate (and I'm pretty sure it's the forum RS2000 meant when he used the term "most", it's certainly the ONLY one I know of that has that ridiculous stricture) does NOT mean it should be done here. I process 800px wide and have no intention of changing to suit those who have difficulty moving into the 21st century.

Why anyone would prefer to see piddlingly tiny images in this day and age is completely beyond me.

For those who have such great difficulty opening a thread that takes "several seconds" to load, may I kindly suggest avoiding threads containing words such as "photos" or "pictures" in the title. Your day will be so much less of a drag, while the rest of us get to see some stunning images in all their glory.

Originally posted by Option1 As for the time it's taking to open/load this page, I'd suggest it's more a local problem at your end because it takes no time at all to open for me.

Neil

It has to be local, it has to do with the infrastructure of your cable network, and your pc.Give me the heaviest picture, all I have to do is click the damn mouse and the image is there, ....as it should be in 2008 !

I changed providers recently, have a no more than standard laptop, running on a Linksys router three stories down, standard ADSL internet connection....no problem. It probably also depends on how "clean" your working memory is !!! If you do a lot of internetting...clean away some of the blasted "cookies", and/or"temporary internet files".Might not be the main problem, but works for me.Also, I do not store any documents and files in my pc.

Originally posted by swintex One thing that doesn't help page loading times is quoting a post that contains multiple images without editing the quote to only include the relevant image.

Ummm, no that should have no effect as the image will already be loaded from the first post it was in (provided it was on the same page as the quoted post). It doesn't get reloaded down the pipe, the computer just redisplays it from the existing copy it already downloaded.

It makes sense, but it doesn't work like that for me
On a slow day it will take several seconds for - say - the eight images in the first post to load, and perhaps even longer (or maybe it just seems that way) for the eight repeats to load. Whether or not that's a problem with my computer doesn't make them load any faster

Originally posted by Option1 Andrew just because they blindly do it on a forum you moderate (and I'm pretty sure it's the forum RS2000 meant when he used the term "most", it's certainly the ONLY one I know of that has that ridiculous stricture) does NOT mean it should be done here. I process 800px wide and have no intention of changing to suit those who have difficulty moving into the 21st century.

Sorry Andrew, I checked 10/10ths after I posted and did indeed notice you're not moderating there and then forgot to fix my post accordingly. Anyway, my apologies for that, but I still stand by the rest of my post.